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Capturing user name to use as posted by author

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  1. trig
    Member

    Has anyone ever done this. When a person uses our submission form, as they are a registered user of our site, I'd like to capture their user name and then use that as the posted by author. Any advice?

    http://www.holyhiphopsite.com/submissions-2/

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday November 22, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Gravity Forms already has this an option on the Post Title and Post Body fields. Where you select the default author for the post that is created there is a checkbox to use the user that is logged in, if they are logged in. See this screenshot:

    http://grab.by/7wwl

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday November 22, 2010 | Permalink

  3. trig
    Member

    I'm sorry Carl I'm not following you. Do I need add that field to my submissions form?

    James

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday November 22, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    WordPress knows which user is logged in, and Gravity Forms uses that information to attribute the post to that author. You don't need to add anything to your form. The functionality is built in: you just have to tick the box that is in the screenshot Carl posted.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday November 22, 2010 | Permalink

  5. trig
    Member

    Ah, I see, thanks. So to your point of the person being logged in, is there a way to force a person to be logged in in order to use the form?

    James

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday November 23, 2010 | Permalink

  6. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    @trig That wouldn't be something Gravity Forms controls. If you want a form only available to users who are logged in you would have to protect the post or page the form is embedded on. This can be done using the private functionality of WordPress posts or via using a plugin such as the Members plugin to control access to a post or page by user role.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday November 23, 2010 | Permalink

  7. Gil Namur
    Member

    Just so I am clear on this, as I would like to do what Trig mentioned initially. If one of our users (who is NOT logged in) enters a form, and uses the email address associated with their user account, can Gravity forms use that e-mail address to set the post author to that user?

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday January 12, 2011 | Permalink

  8. David Smith
    Member

    Hi Gil, Gravity Forms will only attribute the post to the submitting user if that user is currently logged in.

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday January 12, 2011 | Permalink

  9. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    If the user is not logged in, you can prevent him from seeing a form by hiding the content with a plugin or procedure designed to hide the content from non-logged in users. That way, they can't submit it if they're not logged in.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in

    http://www.livexp.net/wordpress/using-wordpress-shortcodes-to-show-members-only-content.html

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday January 12, 2011 | Permalink